Tol-in-Guarhoth CIX - Ten Year Anniversary Game: Dead Thread

[McCaber]

This was a really fun setup. It isn't often I go an entire game as a werewolf without lying even once.

Nerwen: All the props in the world. You took what looked to us like a handy win for the wolves and turned it completely around in a matter of hours. And I loved how no one outright said you were the seer until you had died.

My Fanged friends Morm and Lal: We gave it our best shot, eh? But sometimes life has other plans.

Speaking of that, Boro: Good god you went through us wolves like a buzz saw. Absolutely nuts. The village might have won in the end, but it was thanks to you first and foremost.

Everyone: it was a blast to be a part of this first game after the Great Blackout. What is dead may never die, but rises again harder and stronger. Let's do this again sometime.

[Shastanis Althreduin]

It was worth it. I particularly approve of Lalaith's dream.

[Aganzir]

I LOVED THIS GAME. Never have I willingly got so little sleep, or bought so many energy drinks since high school. And best of all, it was all worth it.

Thank you, Kuru. ♥

And the final narration was absolutely brilliant. Not gonna lie, I snorted violently when Rikae was credited as Prey. And why was Lommy the itching player?

It was a pleasure playing with you all, Living and Dead.

Fang pack - McC, Tweedlemorm, Lalaith - well played! Morm and Lalaith completely slipped under my radar (while McC is somebody I always suspect anyway).

Grip pack - Mac, Tweedleform, Lottie (really Kuru did you choose these packs because their names kind of rhyme?) - I was saddened by your early demise (but not too much!). I never really got around to suspecting Lottie, and Form was amazing pretending to be a grumpy ordo! Again, Mac is somebody I always suspect, and I just hope I'd kept hunting him beyond NIGHT 2. In any case, your contributions to the Dead thread were hilarious.

So who did you actually kill, and why?

Nerwen, that was some freaking awesome seering. You dreamed 5 out of 6 wolves. Wow. *does the wave for Nerwen the Dreamer Queen*

Boro, Mr FBI, amazing wolf hunting there! You wouldn't believe how much time we spent talking about you - we used to think you were the seer. I think we're dying (har har) to know more about your role though!

Shasta, our dear Power Ranger, well done! I can't believe you made it to the end without revealing.

Nilp and sally, that was a well-timed lynch! Also thanks for not lynching me on DAY 1 sally!

Special thanks to Legate (for killing me with laughter more than once), phantom (likewise, plus fab plans), Rikae (likewise, plus amazing fake reveals), Firefoot (I enjoyed playing with you and your guesses were scarily accurate), and Mith (so glad somebody spotted my Hunter hints)!

Sorry about killing you, Greenie - I know you're somebody I always suspect. (Then again my three other main suspects - two of whom were wolves - were also people I always suspect). I hunted sally on NIGHT 1 (on principle), Lommy on DAY 1 (out of extreme annoyance rather than rational suspicion), Mac on NIGHT 2 and - obviously - Greenie on DAY 2 (I considered sticking with Mac but I thought Rikae might be the seer who had dreamed him innocent and didn't want to chance it).
And if I had been less tired, I would have definitely done a fake reveal on DAY 2 (no way I was going to be a known Hunter ever again, that's the most boring thing in existence and I had enough of it years ago), but I really couldn't think straight.

[Thinlómien]

Well, that was a game.

Personally I'm really glad that after a rather useless start, I managed to spot two wolves (morm and McCaber) and be sort of useful in organizing things in the living village, plus figure out Nerwen's dreams. Still maybe not the best game I've played as an ordo.

Spacial hats off to Nerwen for everything. Efficient hiding, efficient dreaming and genious scheming. You were brilliant.

Poor Boro gets the hug award. But also the award fro a freaking sixth sense when it comes to bagging wolves. I'm still really impressed about Lalaith.

Speaking of which, hats off to all the sneaky wolves. From my perspective, you guys were convincingly innocent to a frustrating degree. Plus, you were the funniest in the dead thread.

Also Shasta - efficient rangering, and I'm even more happy about you rising up to the role of the village champion on the last Day. We dead were so afraid you guys wouldn't lynch Boro.

And, Sally and Nilp. You had some excellent scheming going on, and did exactly what was expected of you. Well done, babes.

Hats off to the rest of us, too. It was a hard game to play as an ordo, and I think we can all pat ourselves on the back for whatever we got right.

Thanks for modding, Kuru! It was a great game.

I still haven't read most of the dead thread or repped anyone. That's a nice to-do list for today!

[Boromir88]

Half the strain was just wanting to join the Dead thread. As I said in the game, neither of the Mandos games have I been able to join the dead...this must be the only type of game people don't want to kill me right away. I've just been intrigued by the concept, because I think of the dead brothers in Stardust, just observing and commentating on the plot that's happening in the movie.

I had no special powers besides killing and it wasn't only wolves, it worked as long as the Ranger wasn't protecting the person, or the wolves didn't target the same one. Night 2 I didn't target/kill anyone. The other time, in the game I said I didn't kill anyone I targeted Nerwen with the 2 other wolf packs, so at least I could make the claim I didn't, and not be completely false.

The other strain was just having to be so lonely all the time and having to survive basically on my own. There was a point if I died then one of my abilities could have taken effect (given the right circumstances and luck) that I still could have won, but Kuru asked for me not to reveal that and I suppose since he gave me such a fantastic role to play...I won't. Sorry.

But when the wolves went for Lommy and Eomer instead of me, it was too late and I now was in a pickle (I knew ahead of time if the players were down to 5 my other ability I could no longer use, because it wouldn't have been fair. And I had made it that far on my own, I needed to finish it! ) , being revealed as the person night-killing wolves, but also someone who couldn't win with the village. I thought at the point I revealed after Nerwen, if I made myself a big enough threat to the wolves, they would kill me, but it got to the point where I was much better as a lynch target for a last surviving wolf.

I had a hunch of the 3 remaining unknowns it was McCaber, so I accepted Mith's plan, and stuck with it, despite it probably sealing my fate because I didn't have much more fight left in me to try to make it look like Kath killed her. At least my aim was better than Smaug's, and I had no special knowledge, either, except the night the Dead gave the signal that Form was a wolf. I was considering going for sally, but I decided to be a dragon of my word and kill the one the Dead signaled and really thinking it would be best to get the game down to 1 wolf pack.

Basically I had to keep killing wolves at a pace that kept the game going, because if the village number got too small than there would have been no chance. And I probably shouldn't have revealed when I did, but I was thinking I couldn't get lynched at that time, because I took a gamble with killing Lalaith (had no confirmation she was a wolf, I just thought she looked like she knew too much information about wolves and I was all-in believing Nerwen was the seer)...so in my head if I was lynched, with still a possibility of 4 wolves, it was over for the village and me.